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Following more than a year of diplomatic conflict between the US and Panama, US military forces invaded Panama. The invasion was widely condemned by the international community, but President Bush justified the action as a measure to protect American citizens in Panama, fight Panamanian drug trafficking, protect the neutrality of the Panama Canal, remove General Manuel Noriega, and restore democratic government.

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A pro-democracy student protest in China’s Tiananmen Square in Beijing ended in bloody violence when the Chinese army was sent in to clear the square of protestors. Without warning, the army unleashed gunfire and tanks on the crowd, killing hundreds of protestors. President Bush condemned the Chinese government’s actions.

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Alan Greenspan (1926– ) is an American economist who chaired the Federal Reserve through four presidential administrations. Greenspan was first appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve Board by President Ronald Reagan in 1987. He helped guide the US through times of economic crisis and expansion under Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. He retired from the Federal Reserve in 2006. In 2011 the bi-partisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission found that Greenspan’s support for deregulation and his failure to...

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Bill Clinton (1946– ) was the forty-second president of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas. He attended Georgetown University and earned a law degree from Yale, where he met his wife, Hillary Rodham. In 1978 he was elected governor of Arkansas after serving as the state’s attorney general. He was governor until 1981 and then again from 1983 to 1992. In 1992, Clinton was chosen as the Democratic nominee for president. With Al Gore as his running mate, Clinton defeated incumbent Republican...

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Colin Powell (1937– ) is a US general who served as secretary of state to President George W. Bush. In 1989, as a career Army officer, Powell was the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush. In 1993, he retired from the military. In 2001, he was appointed as the first African American secretary of state by George W. Bush, and in that position he sought support for the American war in Iraq. In February 2003, he delivered a speech before the United Nations supporting American action in Iraq,...

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George H. W. Bush (1924– ) was the forty-first president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Bush began his political career after World War II. During the war, he flew fifty-eight combat missions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery. At Yale, he excelled in sports and academics. Later he worked in the Texas oil business before being elected as a Republican to the US House of Representatives in 1966. He served as US ambassador to the United Nations in 1971–1972, and headed the CIA in 1976–1977. Bush...